Ministry of Truth

No, that’s not a front page headline from an upcoming edition of the Daily Express. Rather its an actual newly published essay in an oncology journal, ‘The Breast Journal’, which is published by Wiley-Blackwell with the following promotional blurb: The Breast Journal is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary source […]

It would appear from today’s Twitter traffic that Rhys Morgan has now hit the big time with the acquisition of his own personal fruitloop, who comes complete with their own batshit insane Youtube channel, ‘SKEPTICSexposed’ (seven videos and counting, so far). That said, most of the smart money […]

If you’ve been following developments in the ongoing case of the skeptical blogosphere vs Dr Stanslaw Burzynski then you’ll probably be aware that, yesterday, yet another branch of mainstream media joined the growing list of professional journalistic enterprises that have recently been drawn into, perhaps unwittingly, promoting his […]

Have you heard the one about the Uruguayan, the Frenchman and the bunch of somewhat baffled Englishmen…? Yesterday’s announcement that Liverpool FC’s Luis Suarez is to be banned for eight games and fined £40,000 over an incident during a league game between Liverpool and Manchester United on 15 […]

If it hasn’t already registered, 2012 is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, and if Dickens is your kind of thing then you’ll be well catered for over the next few months as there are something of the order of 18 separate radio and television programmes […]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ[/youtube] Sadly, its unlikely that anyone on North Korea will find out that this video is the sum total of Kim Jong Il’s global legacy.

I think this more or less sums up my feelings about Lord Hunt’s suggest that bloggers might like to voluntarily sign up to a PCC-run kitemark scheme… Actually, I should point out, as well, that the term ‘Kitemark’ is a registered trademark of the British Standards Institute, which […]

There’s a side to the ongoing Burzynski story that, for me, hasn’t really been covered in any great depth as yet and so, at the risk of offending a few people along the way, I’m going to dive straight into it and talk about the role of Burzynski’s […]

I dealt with the absurd proposition that the findings of the RCPsych/NCCMH review of abortion and mental health demonstrates that 98% of abortions carried out in the UK are, in fact, illegal within the provision of the Abortion Act 1967 in my last monster post on the subject […]

The big story from yesterday’s proceedings at the Leveson Inquiry came from outside the actual hearing in the form of an announcement that, following its own inquiries. the Metropolitan Police do no believe that NOTW journalists actually deleted voice mails from Milly Dowler’s mobile phone. This was quickly […]